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gwynemmRECORDS OF GWYNEDD MONTHLY MEETING (GWYNEDD, PA)A Finding Aid for its Meeting Records Deposited in Friends Historical
Library of Swarthmore College and Haverford College Quaker CollectionRecords Services Group of the Philadelphia
Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends2011Finding aid encoded by Staff2011Finding aid written in English.RECORDS OF GWYNEDD MONTHLY MEETING (GWYNEDD, PA)A Finding Aid for its Meeting Records Deposited in Friends Historical Library
of Swarthmore College and Haverford College Library Quaker CollectionGwynedd Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of FriendsRecords Services Group of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious
Society of Friends
Summary
Gwynedd Monthly Meeting Records1690-2008Gwynedd Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
(1936- )21.75 linear ft. Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College & Haverford College
Library Quaker CollectionFor current information on the location of materials, please
consult the Libraries' online catalog: http://tripod.brynmawr.edu
SHORT HISTORY OF MEETING

Gwynedd Monthly Meeting was established in 1714 by Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting out
of Haverford [later Radnor] Monthly Meeting. Gwynedd held its first session in 12mo
1714/5. It was transferred to Abington Quarterly Meeting in 1786. In 1827, after the
Hicksite Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, the meeting split into Hicksite
and Orthodox branches.

Gwynedd Monthly Meeting (Orthodox) was discontinued in 1936.

Gwynedd Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) was discontinued in 1936. Its three preparative
meetings, Gwynedd, Norristown and Plymouth, were then established as monthly
meetings. The second Gwynedd Monthly Meeting (Hicksite) became a united meeting in
1953 by affiliation with Abington Quarterly Meeting (Orthodox). It is currently an
active monthly meeting.

Collection is open for research. Access is through microfilm, if available.

Use Restrictions

Copyright has not been assigned to the Repositories All requests for permission
to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the individual Meeting
or its successor. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the
Repositories as the holder(s) of the physical items and is not intended to
include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained
by reader.

SEARCHING IN OUR ON-LINE CATALOGUE FOR RELATED MATERIALS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in TRIPOD, the joint on-line
catalog of Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges. Researchers desiring materials about
related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.
Please note that records created before 1827, the date of a schism in Philadelphia
Yearly Meeting, may have been added to by either the Hicksite or Orthodox branches
of this meeting, but could include information about members of the other branch
before the Separation:

Monthly meeting records normally include minutes of men’s and women’s meetings for
business and registers of births, deaths, marriages, removals (transfers), and
disownments. In general, non-members are not mentioned in the minutes, even when
they attended meeting for worship on a regular basis.

Note to Researchers: These records may only be consulted
at either Haverford (HV) or Swarthmore (SW), and are not available through inter-Library loan. To
request materials on-site, please make sure to use the correct call numbers for the
Library in which you wish to use the records:

Vital Records

At the time of the Separation in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1827-28,
pre-Separation vital records were generally retained by the branch with
which the recorder was affiliated. Researchers are advised to consider vital
records which span this period carefully: in many cases, the meeting without
the original records may have reconstructed these records for its membership
only, giving the impression that individuals in the other branch were never
members.

A compilation of births and deaths largely from an earlier record.
Entries after 1827 are for the Hicksite meeting. With: Deaths
(1805-1878) recorded in opposite direction to births on pages numbered
1-34. Includes index.

Meeting's copies of marriage certificates. Laid in is a loose quire of 32
pages (numbered 292-323) on which are copied marriage certificates,
1754- 1782. These certificates were not copied in strict chronological
order. Accompanied by an index. Volumes are 3.2 Marriage certificates
1715-1787, 3.5 Index 1715-1787.

Copies of certificates for persons who had transferred their membership
to Gwynedd Monthly Meeting. Includes index. Pertinent items laid in.
Entries do not follow strict chronological order.

Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

SW:No FilmHV:No Film Men's Meeting and Joint

Official records of proceedings kept for all Quaker business meetings. Only
Quakers could participate. It has responsibility for care of members,
authorizes removals and marriages, maintains discipline, considers the
queries, manages meeting property, fosters social concerns, and reports
regularly to the quarterly meeting. Beginning at the end of the 19th
century, men and women ceased to hold separate business meetings, meeting
instead in joint session.

Committee which had care of the spiritual welfare of the meeting,
particularly the meeting for worship. Ministry and Counsel committees were
established in 1918 by Hicksite meetings, which no longer designated members
as ministers or elders. The predecessor of Ministry and Counsel was the
Preparative Meeting of Ministers and Elders.

Minutes1757-18184 v. in 3 PreSWRG2/Ph/G94 4.1-4.3

Volumes are 4.1 1757-65, 65-81, 4.2 1782-93, 4.3 1793-1818. Available on microfilm in the following location(s):

Copies of epistles received from the Yearly Meeting of Women Friends held
in London, 1786-1788, 1790-1797. Also included are epistles from
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Women Friends, 1786, 1794, 1797. Some
epistles are incomplete.